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Twilio provides APIs for developers to build communication features into their applications, including FileMaker. Learn how to use Twilio to implement SMS into FileMaker today at 1PM Pacific! Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=1512116919499215269506038597543338117833371045348439189027 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

For the next version of MBS FileMaker Plugin in 15.3 we add the Window.SetRoundCorners function to provide round corners. At the recent Vienna Calling conference a developer asked if we can get the edges of the card in FileMaker to be round. And yes, that is indeed possible. Once the card is shown, the MBS Plugin can find the card window and apply round corners to it. This even works on Windows: This seems to work fine in FileMaker Pro on macOS and Windows. It does of course not work for WebDirect or FileMaker Go. To add the round corners, you simply call our plugin function Window.SetRoundCorners just after showing the card. The plugin fi…

Nick Hunter is back with a new series! Join us today at 1PM Pacific for Day 1 of Intermediate & Advanced Relationships. Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=5740316211337105268699473510470998658661277504816385414462 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Did you notice that MBS FileMaker Plugin 15.2 includes a new feature to add keyboard shortcuts for the result data types for a formula? If you visit the manage database dialog, you can use keyboard shortcuts to pick data types for a field: Text ⌘ T Number ⌘ N Date ⌘ D Time ⌘ T Timestamp ⌘ M Container ⌘ R Calculation ⌘ L Summary ⌘ S If you define the formula, you get a dialog like the one shown above. The MBS Plugi…

New Client Story: Lab9 & ClickWorks How do you scale internal systems to support a growing retail and service network; without losing agility? From building their first FileMaker tool in-house back in 1993 to powering daily operations for 300+ employees today, Lab9 has always valued efficiency and innovation. When their internal platform needed a complete redesign, they partnered with us at ClickWorks. Together, we reimagined their platform by refining design, improving day-to-day usability, and supporting teams across service, retail, and operations. It’s a collaboration that still continues today. Read the full story here - https://www.clickworks…

Did you know we can pass styled text to Apple Mail? We can use our SharingService functions to share data with other applications. This includes passing styled text, containers with images, files or URLs. Available services Using the SharingService.ServicesForItems function, we can query the available services to request. This allows us to check which services are available and only show a button to share via Airdrop, if that is possible. By default you have these services available on macOS: Title Name Text File Path Images URLs Add to Photos com.…

Todd Geist joins us for the next 5 days at 1PM Pacific for a series on OttoFMS and FileMaker Server! Learn more about this free data migration tool and deployment manager. Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=2869115884610708856046853598033301980653908467289176017307 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

FM Starting Point 2025 is now out! We’ll be showing an overview of this free FileMaker CRM today at 1PM Pacific with Myles and Richard. Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=2378924403701264833127834713061775947583700310146634267859 Download FMSP: www.FMStartingPoint.com [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.rcconsulting.com

Join Claus Lavendt at 1PM Pacific today to learn how to secure your FileMaker Server from DDoS attacks. Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=1311431668691501837330622039815206072536283428976643488498 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch. A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube. We talked about the 15.2 release: See announcement, the new functions and release notes. More videos The MonkeyBread Plug-in 15.2 Update with Christian Schmitz MonkeyBread Plug-in Open Q&A with Christian Schmitz The MonkeyBread Plug-in 15.1 Update with Christian Schmitz 25 Ways to Improve Your Database Using the FileMaker MonkeyBread Plug-in - Day 3 …

Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch. A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube. A question and answer round for the MBS FileMaker Plugin. We check Window.Activate, Process.SetFrontMost, Time.Format, AVRecorder, WebView, DynaPDF, JSON and more functions. We check out the script workspace enhancements with the various shortcuts and the snippet database. More videos MonkeyBread Plug-in Open Q&A with Christian Schmitz The MonkeyBread Plug-in 15.…

We used to suggest scripts like the one below to install the MBS FileMaker Plugin and check for the error status. But the following script has a big problem, a little oversight on how FileMaker works. Try to guess what is wrong here: Install Plug-In File [ Install Plugin Update if needed::Plugin File Mac ] Set Variable [ $LastError ; Value: Get(LastError) ] Set Variable [ $LastErrorDetail ; Value: Get(LastErrorDetail) ] The script installs the plugin and in case of an error, we like to query the error code and message. But this script never gets the last error detail! You may guess that we query the last error number and detail for the first line with the ins…

For this week, Richard and Margaret will show you how to add a completely fresh table to an already busy customer database, and the ins-and-outs of that process. Day one will focus on Data Modeling! Register for Day One: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=4170783299115422248254663575189648357730623808426609664042 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch. A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube. We talked about the 15.1 release: See announcement, the new functions and release notes. More videos The MonkeyBread Plug-in 15.1 Update with Christian Schmitz 25 Ways to Improve Your Database Using the FileMaker MonkeyBread Plug-in - Day 3 25 Ways to Improve Your Database Using the FileMaker MonkeyBread Plug-in - Day 2 15.0 MonkeyBread FileMaker Plug-in R…

In this article we want to introduce you the new functions from the MBS FileMaker Plugin in version 15.2. LibXL Let's start with what's new in the LibXL component. LibXL supports you since years in creating, reading and modifying Excel files. In this release you get the possibility to add and format tables. First, we can add a table with the XL.Sheet.AddTable function. You can give this table a name, a range and a style. You can change the name and style later using the other functions we have added. To change the name, we use the XL.Table.SetName function. To change the style, use the XL.Table.SetStyle function. You can find out which styles you can use here (ht…

XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) has been a core technology for XML data transformation since the early 2000s. While XSLT 1.0 laid the groundwork, subsequent versions — 2.0 and 3.0 — significantly expanded the language’s capabilities, power, and usability. You can use XSLT 3.0 in Xojo with MBS Xojo Plugins and our Saxon classes. Please check the MBS Xojo XML Plugin. The built-in XSLT in Xojo itself is only doing XSLT 1.0. Here’s a breakdown of what you can do in XSLT 2.0 and 3.0 that you simply *can’t* do in 1.0. 1. Data Types Beyond Strings XSLT 1.0 is essentially string-based. Everything is treated as a string or node-set, w…

Join Jacob Taylor this entire week at 1PM Pacific for a complete FileMaker Server deployment on AWS tutorial! Register for Day 1: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=5229916340448395273284332695105701686724772640084971830651 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

A client asked about using Gmail with oAuth 2 and our SendMail functions in MBS FileMaker Plugin. We have an existing example for Microsoft Office 365, which we can adapt for Google Mail. We change a couple of URLs, the scope and then it works fine. But let's go step by step. As part of the oAuth, we later get a callback. Usually this is for contacting a web server, but we like to do it locally. We use our WebHook functions to do within the FileMaker Pro application and catch the answer from the JavaScript running in the browser. Set Variable [ $$WebHooks ; Value: MBS("WebHook.Create") ] Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS("WebHook.Listen"; $$WebHooks; 9999) ] S…

Finish the week with Christian Schmitz at 1PM Pacific to learn all about the latest MonkeyBread Plug-in 15.2 release. Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=809123821662612783734956270981249872194503437221875530854 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Kristian Olsen joins us today at 1PM Pacific to discuss his ChatGPT FileMaker Add-on! Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=3614694288955383683273482599222495102174289096230728870519 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Rendering text in a PDF might seem straightforward—until you try working with languages like Arabic or Hebrew. These languages require more than just placing characters from left to right. Without proper handling, the result can be unreadable or even misleading. Let’s look at how DynaPDF handles this challenge using Bidirectional (Bidi) Mode and Complex Text Rendering. The Problem with Basic Text Rendering When rendering Latin-based languages like English, you can often get away with simply passing text directly to DynaPDF and letting it handle the rest. But try the same with Arabic, and you’ll see this: Anyone who reads Arabic would instant…

If you enjoyed Kyle’s basic overview of JSinFM, you won’t want to miss this deeper dive! Join Kyle today at 1PM Pacific to learn more about injecting JavaScript into existing FileMaker webviewers. Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=5368803657973188027105354062945446996115129825983705852975 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Rick Kalman from Claris joins us today at 1PM Pacific for the latest FileMaker News and to answer your community questions! Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=1212623626360485692070330154464255243402192886437052523874 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Eric from Proof+Geist joins us today and tomorrow at 1PM Pacific for a two day event on building web apps with FileMaker! Register for the Day 1 LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=5884922293066375025587310645265305002534536559884735428630 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Christian Schmitz returns to the LiveStream today (April 23rd) at 1PM Pacific for an Open Q&A! Join us with all your MBS questions, comments and concerns. Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=4048207882000996402135159406659072721355097733327393321139 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Join Jonathan Ray today (April 22nd) at 1PM Pacific to learn how to fully unlock the power of the text editor in Claris FileMaker! Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=227897429491623287876789677984606631026035680370764446089 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Today we like to connect to a DuckDB database from FileMaker using the SQL functions in MBS FileMaker Plugin. For that we need the client libraries for DuckDB, but where to get them? macOS with homebrew For macOS you can use homebrew to install the duckdb package. Then you get the duckdb library installed. You find the library on an Apple Silicon Mac: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/duckdb/1.2.1/lib/libduckdb.dylib For an Intel Mac, you find it in the /usr/local folder in a sunfolder. All platforms Just got to the DuckDB installation website: Installation There you can click Version: Stable Release Environment: C/C++ Platfo…

"AND LIVE FROM Claris Engage 2025 - It's FMTV!" We recorded a series of interviews with Claris Staff and Community Members while at Claris' developer conference in one of the new Apple Studios. These are all now available for you to enjoy: https://fmtraining.tv/engage-2025/ [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Today we like to connect to Postgres Database server from FileMaker using the SQL functions in MBS FileMaker Plugin. For that we need the client libraries for Postgres, but where to get them? macOS For macOS you can download the Postgres App to get a local test server for Postgres on your Mac. You can directly point to the libpq.5.dylib within the application. We adjusted the install names to make them work into the Frameworks folder of your application. The libpq library needs crypto and ssl libraries, so these must be in the same folder. We got the libraries here for you: PostgreSQL Libraries. You can store these for example in the Extensions folder next t…

The Claris Engage 2025 recap continues! In this special interview, we sit down with Claris VP of Product Management, Giuliano Iacobelli, to discuss all of the news from the conference. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

While Claris Engage 2025 may have ended a couple weeks ago, we have some LiveSteam recordings for you to enjoy! First up is this year's Keynote recap with Richard Carlton and Garrett Debski. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Join Kevin Frank in this LiveStream recording on JSON and FileMaker custom functions! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

As we wrap up our Claris FileMaker Beginner Training, you may be looking for some advanced training. Check out this two day event on Advanced Relationships with Nick Hunter for a potential next step. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

While the MonkeyBread Plugin actually has over 7600 functions to extend your FileMaker solution, Christian Schmitz joined us with a quick list of 25 ways to improve your database! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

The Claris FileMaker Engage conference is right around the corner! We had Julie Sigrinius, Senior Director at Claris, join us to talk all about Engage 2025. Learn more about Engage: https://content.claris.com/cpl-q2fy25-li-engage-rcc Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Learn how to build a Custom Find Mode in FileMaker to either simplify or enhance your user's experience. Nick Hunter demonstrates how you can accomplish this without the use of scripts! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Conditional formatting allows you to change a fields formatting based on a specific action. Learn how to leverage this capability in your FileMaker database in this recording with Nick Hunter. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

You think about going to Claris Engage 2025 in Austin Texas and you wonder what you could do there with a few extra days? Especially if you come over from far away, you may enjoy a few extra days to adjust to the time zone and see the surrounding area. I've been seven times in Texas to various conferences and so I can give you a few ideas on what you could do. If you go to downtown Austin, you can visit the capitol, enjoy a few drinks at the bars in sixth street. At sunset you can see a lot of bats flying out of the Congress Avenue bridge. It's amazing to see. You can visit the cathedral in Austin: West of Austin are …

When you receive an electronic invoice in the formats ZUGFeRD, Factur-X, X-Rechnung or UBL, you may need to visualize the XML file. You can use our DynaPDF functions to extract the XML from the ZUGFeRD invoice. Once you have the XML for one of the formats UBL or Cross Industry Invoice, you may want to convert it to HTML and show it in a web viewer. We leverage the XRechnung Visualization Transformators project from GitHub. This project has a couple of XML stylesheets to convert our invoices to HTML. For this they first convert the UBL or CII XML to an intermediate XML and finally convert that to XML with a second transformation. There is also an alternative ou…

This script utilizes the DynaPDF functions in MBS FileMaker Plugin for FileMaker to add an image into a PDF document. It initializes the DynaPDF library, imports an existing PDF, adds an image to the PDF, and saves the final version. Here’s a step-by-step breakdown of each action in the script. 1. Initializing DynaPDF If [ MBS("DynaPDF.IsInitialized") ≠ 1 ] Perform Script [ Specified: From list ; “InitDynaPDF” ; Parameter: ] End If This section checks if the DynaPDF library is initialized. The function MBS("DynaPDF.IsInitialized") returns 1 if DynaPDF is already initialized. If not, the script calls another script (InitDyn…

Sometimes plugin users wonder why the plugin doesn't see the WebViewer on the layout, so let's check the various cases: 1. Empty WebViewer Just put an empty web viewer on a layout. No URL. Does it exist? When you go to the browse mode, you see the outline drawn, but if you ask the plugin about the web viewer, it can't find it. Until FileMaker loads something into the WebViewer, it doesn't exist as a control with the operation system and the plugin can't see it. 2. Blank WebViewer You can put in the URL "about:blank" and then FileMaker creates the WebViewer right away. If you do something in the script trigger for layout entering, you may need a sh…

You have XSLT 1.0 in FileMaker built-in as well as in our plugin function to use XSLT (XML.ApplyStylesheet). With our Saxon functions you get XSLT 3.0 and you can enjoy all the 2.0 and 3.0 features in your FileMaker solution and Xojo applications. XSLT 2.0 and 3.0 introduce several significant improvements and new features compared to XSLT 1.0. Here are the key benefits of XSLT 2.0 and 3.0 over XSLT 1.0: 1. Support for Sequences (XSLT 2.0 & 3.0) XSLT 1.0: It processes XML documents element by element, and only allows a single value (like a string or a node) as the result of an expression. XSLT 2.0/3.0: It supports sequences, meaning that a…

Claris FileMaker Go is a client for iOS devices but there are some key differences from FileMaker Pro. We highlighted these differences in this recording using a special sample file. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

In this advanced training, Nick Hunter covered how to use Relationships to master logic outside of FileMaker Pro's schema instead of calculations. Check out this mini-series to elevate your development skills. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Updated with FileMaker 21.1, Open Quickly allows a user to access FileMaker's Manage Database, Scripts and Layouts via a search. Check out this recording to learn more about Open Quickly and the update. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

For the 15.1 version of MBS FileMaker Plugin, we made a little change to Text.ReadTextFile to be able to read from /proc directory on Linux. This way you can read various system things. There are hundreds of things you can read there, so let us show you a few useful picks: Memory Information The meminfo entry provides information about memory utilization. This varies for different linux versions, but you should be able to query the text and find the entries you like. Set Variable [ $meminfo ; Value: MBS("Text.ReadTextFile"; "/proc/meminfo") ] The MemTotal is the total memory in the system. MemFree would be the free memory, but on a Linux system free memory…

We'd love to meet you at one of the various FileMaker conferences. Let us show you: The next conference is Claris Engage in two months, the official one from Claris themselves. Stefanie and I are signed up and will be there. If you have questions about the MBS Plugin, please stop us in the hallways and chat with us. We skip the booth this year as we like to enjoy the sessions ourselves and prefer to wander around instead of sitting on the 5th floor. If you like to join, there are still a few tickets available for the early bird pricing. The CodeWave conference for 2025 in Valencia is a great place to meet people from Spain. I visited this conference last y…

Learn how to implement auto-filling addresses using the Google API with Yitzchok Tzvi Fogel in this LiveStream recording! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

FileMaker has the ability to export to Excel, but what if you want more out of this feature? MonkeyBread is the answer! Watch this recording to find out how MBS can improve Excel exports. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch. A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube. We walk over some of the doors of our advent calendar. We talk about ics files, HotkeyWIA, WindowsOCR, ImageCapture, ContinuityCamera, AVRecorder, Printer, PrintDialog, PagesetupDialog and AppleScript functions. More videos 25 Ways to Improve Your Database Using the FileMaker MonkeyBread Plug-in - Day 3 25 Ways to Improve Your Database Using the FileMaker MonkeyBread …

HOnza joined us, with special guest Karl Jreijiri, to do a performance test on FileMaker with 1000s of virtual instances. Watch this recording to see how they used fmBlaze to perform the test and the results! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch. A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube. We walk over some of the doors of our advent calendar. We talk about CURL, DynaPDF, MapView, SendMail, SharingService, XML, Calendar and UNNotification functions. More videos 25 Ways to Improve Your Database Using the FileMaker MonkeyBread Plug-in - Day 2 15.0 MonkeyBread FileMaker Plug-in Release with Christian Schmitz 25 Ways to Improve Your Database Using the…

In this article we want to introduce you the new functions from the MBS FileMaker Plugin in version 15.0. Saxon A completely new area that we plan to further expand in the next releases is the connection to the Saxon library. Saxon is a widely used and high-performance software library that specializes in the processing and transformation of XML and XSLT data. It enables developers to manipulate data efficiently and convert it into the desired formats. We would now make these functions from the library available to you in FileMaker. We have already included several functions in this release, but there will certainly be more to come in the future. To find out what…

Today is the day! Join us at 1PM Pacific as we start our 60 Day Claris FileMaker Training for Beginner & Intermediate Developers. While the training will be free to watch live, the Recordings will exclusively be available for paid, active subscribers. Register: https://fmtraining.tv/training-60-day.php

You can use various Amazon web services in FileMaker using our CURL functions in MBS FileMaker Plugin. You need to build the URL and her payload and either pass data in the URL or as POST data, depending on the service. You may easily translate an existing sample call on the AWS documentation for the call you like to make and translate that to setting the various options. The special thing for the AWS requests is the signature to properly encode and hash the credentials. For years we have CURL.SetupAWS function to help signing the requests. But since CURL got the AWSSigV4 Option, we can use our CURL.SetOptionAWSSigV4 function to sign the request on the fly. Th…

Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch. A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube. We walk over some of the doors of our advent calendar. We talk about installation, DragDrop, DynaPDF, Contacts, web services and archive functions. More videos 25 Ways to Improve Your Database Using the FileMaker MonkeyBread Plug-in - Day 1 Exporting to Excel from FileMaker using MBS 14.5 MonkeyBread FileMaker Plug-in Release Unlocking the Power of PDFs in…

Our new 60 Day Claris FileMaker Training for Beginner and Intermediate Developers starts on January 21st at 1pm Pacific! While the training will be free to watch live, the Recordings will exclusively be available for paid, active subscribers. Register at: https://fmtraining.tv/training-60-day.php

We've heard about Perform Script on Server but what about Perform Script on Client? Kristian Olsen returns to explain how you can forcibly run a script on another client for notifications and much more! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

With the Claris FileMaker platform, you can build upon your knowledge to continue to improve your solutions. Nick Hunter demonstrates how you can elevate your Custom Formatting with some special techniques. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Don't let Custom Finds and Filters slow down your performance in FileMaker. Join Nick Hunter to learn how you can optimize performance by doing these custom finds and filters through Relationships instead. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Christian Schmitz will be wrapping up his “25 Ways to Improve your Database with MBS” miniseries this week. Join him this Thursday (1/16) at 1PM Pacific for Day 3. Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=4799568847680493155418979764308192133835687019539627925579 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

At the time of this post, MonkeyBread 14.5 is the latest release of the plug-in and we had Christian Schmitz join us for an overview on all the newest functions released. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

In this LiveStream recording, HOnza is joined by special guest Philipp A. Puls to discuss Mirror Tables and how to minimize the amount of data being sent between FileMaker Pro and Server! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

In this article we want to introduce you the new functions from the MBS FileMaker Plugin in version 14.5. Barcode Let's start with a really cool new function. The Barcode.DetectAsJSON function. This function can recognize multiple barcodes on an image and then returns a JSON with the appropriate information. You can even limit the selection of barcodes to be recognized to its type. The following types are available: Aztec, Codabar, Code39, Code93, Code128, DataMatrix, EAN8, EAN13, ITF, PDF417, QRCode, UPCA and UPCE. But you do not have to limit the recognition and so different types of barcodes can be recognized at one time. As a result, we have a lot of informat…

Learn how to get the most out of your Claris FileMaker layout architecture with this 3-day miniseries! Nick Hunter will be covering each layout part and how to leverage them to optimize your layouts. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

What better way to kick off 2025 than with 25 Ways to Improve your Database using the FileMaker MonkeyBread Plug-in. Join Christian Schmitz this Thursday (1/9) at 1PM Pacific as he presents Day 1 of this 4 day mini series! Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=4529248201135119259906753660026484692079478446850025014986 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

FMtv is back from holidays and so are the LiveStreams! Julie Sigfrinius joins us this Wednesday (1/8) at 1PM Pacific to talk about the Claris FileMaker annual developer conference, Engage. Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=2651653879616220148989428520544466122164503349650018592634 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Have you seen all the entries for the 2024 advent calendar? 24 articles to highlight various MBS Plugin features: The Database Install the MBS FileMaker Plugin Drag & Drop Add GTC with DynaPDF Apple Contacts Sending Out Wishlist Forms Open Files With Roundabout Route Via Temporary Files Weather data with JSON Archives Reading The Wish List Know Your Way Sending Mails Share Files With Apple Dialog XML vCard QR Add Entries In Apple Calendar User Notifications ics-Files Hot Keys Scan and Recognize Continuity Camera and Vision Taking P…

Happy New Year!! Start 2025 with our 60 Day Claris FileMaker Training for Beginner & Intermediate developers. Training begins on January 21st and will be free to watch live, while the recordings will exclusively be available for paid, active subscribers. https://bit.ly/Register60Day

Join Richard today at 1PM Pacific to wrap up our 2-day FileMaker Go breakdown. Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=3188447765771379554128178561508278513490263235495108647504 This is the last Stream until January 6th! In the meantime, check out previous recordings in our online subscriber portal: https://fmtraining.tv/psa/ [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch. A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube. We check out the XL functions in MBS FileMaker Plugin to export data from FileMaker to Excel files. With LibXL we can edit xls and xlsx files without having Microsoft Excel installed, do custom imports and exports by scripts. More videos Exporting to Excel from FileMaker using MBS 14.5 MonkeyBread FileMaker Plug-in Release Unlocking the Power of PDFs in FileMake…

Did you know FileMaker Server can now launch PSOS' from within a PSOS? Jacob Taylor and Wim Decorte joined us to talk about the pros and cons of this new Claris FileMaker 21.1 feature. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Since macOS 15.2 we can use Image Playground in our applications. The users love to generate an image with Apple Intelligence. Whether you need a cool image to add to a social post, a placeholder image for some operation, the AI can just generate something based on a few keywords. Our ImagePlayground functions add this functionality to FileMaker. You create the image playground, configure it with maybe a few concept phrases, a source image and then show it. We recommend to show it from a button somewhere in the user interface. # create the controller Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS("ImagePlayground.Create") ] # clear words and then add more Set …

HOnza and special guest Vince Menanno joined us to cover local file editing techniques to improve WAN performance. Learn how you can minimize the number of messages exchanged between FileMaker Pro and Server. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

In case you missed it, Transactions received some updates in the Claris FileMaker 21.1 release! Corn Walker from Proof+Geist joined us to cover everything you need to know and ways to avoid friction points. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

As you may know we have a feature where you can add new contextual menu commands to the Script Workspace with our SyntaxColoring.AddContextMenuCommand function. The custom commands can edit script lines, paste some template code or do whatever you like. Read more here Goodies 33: Custom context menu commands and Adding ChatGPT to the ScriptWorkspace context menu For the next MBS FileMaker Plugin version 14.6 we add the possibility to do the same for the contextual menus in Layout and Browse mode for FileMaker. Just call SyntaxColoring.AddContextMenuCommand with the new flags 16 for browse mode and 32 for layout mode. The plugin will show your custom commands and run …

Join Richard Carlton this Thursday at 1PM Pacific as he does a breakdown of Claris FileMaker Go using a special sample file. This fmp12 file will highlight all the key differences between FileMaker Pro and Go. Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=1319105545717204600582776380616079472741453606381246698936 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Conner Brock and Andrew LeCates, from Claris, joined us a month ago for the FileMaker 21.1 release. Get a refresher with this recording on all the improvements for FileMaker Server that came with the release! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

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It has been about a month since Claris released the 21.1 update for FileMaker. Just in case you missed it, Doug Wallis joined us to talk about all the cool new features the release came with. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

If you don't use QuickFind too often, this LiveStream may teach you some new tips and tricks for implementing it into your CRM. Join Nick Hunter as he demonstrates how to use QuickFind on FileMaker Server. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

If you have a lot of databases in FileMaker and not all windows are visible, you are certainly a power user with a huge database project. And whenever you go to the window menu to show a window, you have to scan the list to find the one you like. To make live easier, the MBS FileMaker Plugin now sorts this starting with 14.6pr3 later this week. As you see we just sort the menu entries in place if the plugin is installed. Enjoy! Available for macOS only in MBS Plugin 14.6pr3 and later.

Added in the Claris FileMaker 21 update, Open Quickly allows a user to access Manage Database, Scripts and more via a search. Join Richard Carlton this Friday at 1PM Pacific to learn more about this new feature! Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=2751114739735327595013100827081965078557336358559148876942 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Join Yitzchok Fogel this Thursday at 1PM Pacific to learn how to auto-fill addresses in FileMaker using JavaScript! Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=4748028900235415026967014660770460330198147231379484125064 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Many customers in Germany are currently interested in the topic of electronic invoices. With the MBS FileMaker Plugin and the DynaPDF functions, we can help you to implement this in FileMaker solutions. ZUGFeRD If you are looking into the topic of e-invoicing, then you should read on the website of the Forum elektronische Rechnung Deutschland what ZUGFeRD, what XRechnung and what Factur-XX is. Then download the current standard: ZUGFeRD 2.3.2. In the download you will find the specification for ZUGFeRD (and Factur-X). There are also various code lists, schema files and many sample invoices. Display e-invoices The sending of electronic invoices…

As AI continues to evolve, so do the possibilities of integration with the Claris FileMaker platform. Learn how you can add ChatGPT right into your Script Workspace Context Menu with the MBS Plug-in! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

FileMaker allows you to create some amazing collaborative environments, but how do different user sessions affect each other's performance? Check out this LiveStream with HOnza and Johan Hedman to find out more. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

We have a last minute substitution on the field! Tomorrow’s LiveStream (12/4) will be lead by Kristian Olsen instead of Nick Hunter. Join Kristian as he discusses Perform Script on Client at 1PM Pacific! Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=4796811482961017396529318554648123815568907722729835629809 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

You may know we have over 40 goodies for developers on macOS to make the live easier. And of course also a few things for Windows. But did you know that not only developers enjoy these enhancements, but also your users? While the normal users of your solutions don't enjoy syntax coloring as they don't edit scripts, they may still enjoy our benefits in same places like the search feature in the export dialog. The tooltips in the export dialog tell them the field type so they can identify calculated or container fields easily. Tell your users to install MBS Plugin, even if they don't use any of the functions and just enjoy the search feature. And if one of your use…

Welcome back everyone! This Thursday, at 1PM Pacific, we have HOnza with special guest Karl Jreijiri. They will be performance testing FileMaker with 1000s of virtual instances with the new fmBlaze web app. Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=4159289326548127037080520854835017679588325494675951659002 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Going to miss our daily LiveStreams over this 3 day Thanksgiving break? Not to worry, you can check out this 3-day recording mini-series on building dashboards and home screens in FileMaker instead! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Check out this LiveStream on Conditional Formatting with Nick Hunter this Tuesday (Nov. 26th) at 1PM Pacific. Just a friendly reminder, there will be no more LiveStreams the remainder of this week due to Thanksgiving! Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=1987560634708160119149545901562204447713098509722150769829 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Unlock the power of PDFs in FileMaker with the MonkeyBread plug-in! Christian Schmitz demonstrates how FileMaker can do an enormous amount with PDFs. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

HOnza returns with special guest Wim Decorte to stress test FileMaker Server! Check out this LiveStream recording for the test, the results, and what they mean. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

For this week's mini-series, Nick Hunter built a brand new theme from scratch! Check out these 3-day LiveStream recordings to learn everything Custom Themes and Shared Styles in Claris FileMaker. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

A new version of the MonkeyBread Plug-in is now available! Join Christian Schmitz to learn about all the new functions in MBS 14.5 this Friday (Nov. 22nd) at 1PM Pacific. Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=4968912546640349084222378139787915497162512589628472923363 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Join HOnza and special guest Philipp Puls on Nov. 21st at 1PM Pacific to discuss how Mirror Tables in Claris FileMaker can minimize data sent between FileMaker Pro and Server. Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=4778526646829100209130765450042786978135090214043760418153 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Earlier this year we added the Overlay functions to our MBS FileMaker Plugin. You can use them to show a graphic on screen outside or on-top of the FileMaker windows on macOS and Windows. This is great for showing splash screen with your logo when the solution starts, some navigation or arrows for a tutorial. What you show is up to you and some people just use it as a notification banner. For version 14.5 we add a new function called Overlay.AddWebViewer to the plugin. Use this function to add a web viewer to the overlay instead of a picture. The web viewer can load some HTML plus CSS to show a webpage with transparency. This may include showing images, an ani…

With the release of Claris FileMaker 21.1, FileMaker Server can now fire a PSOS within a PSOS. Join Wim Decorte and Jacob Taylor tomorrow (Nov. 15th) at 1PM Pacific to learn more! Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=147061868560772219967626621937918502420058058660199228091 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch. A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube. We check out the various DynaPDF functions in our plugin. Since developers in Germany work on electronic invoices in ZUGFeRD format as well as French developers work on Facture-X, we show functions related to embedding XML data for an invoice in a PDF file. Then we go through merging PDFs, signing them, doing layouts with DynaPDF, drawing barcodes, work with forms and finding text in a PDF. …